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Michael
Fabricant, Executive Officer
Email:
mfabrica@hunter.cuny.edu
Executive
Officer Hunter College School of
Social Work; Professor of
Policy Analysis; Research and Computer Applications; B.A.., History, University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D., Social Welfare Research and
Policy, The Florence Heller School,
Brandeis University School of Social
Work.
COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Methods of
Quanlitative Research I & II |
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Harriet
Goodman, Deputy Executive Officer
Email:
hgoodman@hunter.cuny.edu
PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH
INTERESTS:
The
state of social group work in contemporary
social work practice; ethical issues
confronted in conducting qualitative research
and the role of social work education in
promoting Problem Solving Courts; ethical
issues in social science research.
COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Development
of Practice Knowledge in Social Work
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS:
Recent
Articles
“Organizational
Insight and the Education of Advanced Group
Work Practitioners” Social Work with Groups
29 (3/4), 2006.
“An
Educational Model for Child Welfare Practice
with English-Speaking
Caribbean
Families.” with Alma Carten. Child
Welfare 84 (5) pp. 771-789, 2006.
“Elderly
Parents of Adults with Severe Mental Illness:
Group Work Interventions.” The Journal of
Gerontological Social Work. 44 (1), 2004, pp.
173-188.
“Developing
Social Group Work Skills for Contemporary
Agency Practice” with Manny Munoz Social
Work with Groups. 27 (1) 2004, pp. 17-33.
Chapters
in Books
“Organizational
Insight and the Education of Advanced Group
Work Practitioners.” in Making Joyful Noise:
The Art, Science, and Soul of Group Work,
Andrew Malekoff, Robert Salmon and Dominique
Moyse Steinberg, (eds.) Binghamton, NY: The
Haworth Press, Inc., 2006.
Scholarly
and Professional Presentations
2007
“Group Work Practice within the Contemporary
Landscape of Social Services. The
Association for the Advancement of Social Work
with Groups. Paper presented at the 29th
Annual International Symposium.
Jersey City
,
NJ
2007
“Problem Solving Courts: A Research Agenda.
International Association of Forensic Mental
Health Services. 7th Annual Conference,
Montreal
Canada.
2006
“The Role of Social Work Education in
Developing Practice-Based Researchers.”
Society for Social Work Research, Conference,
San Antonio
,
TX
CURRENT
RESEARCH:
Dr.
Goodman’s current research includes a survey
on information literacy skills among social
work professionals and a qualitative study of
the experiences of child welfare workers who
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PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH
INTERESTS:
Social
welfare policy; history of the welfare
state; low income women; social welfare
activism; relationship social welfare policy
and social service delivery.
COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Social
Welfare Policy and Planning I & II.
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS:
Regulating
The Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From
Colonial Times to the Present :
South End Press, 1996 (2nd Rev Ed)
Under
Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in
the United States.
Monthly Review Press,
2000 ( 2nd rev
Ed);
Learning From The History of Poor and Working
Class Women’s Activism. The Annals of
the American Academy of Political and Social
Science,. September 2001.
The
Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy.
Oxford University Press, 2004 w.
Joel Blau);
Taxes
Are A Women 's Issue: Reframing The Debate.
Feminist Press, 2006
w. Sandra Morgan
RECENT AWARDS:
2004:
Distinguished Recent Contributions to Social
Work Education, Council
On Social Work Education
2004: Feminist Scholarship Award, Commission
on the Role and
Status of Women, Council on Social
Work Education.
Current Research:
Gendered
Obligations: History of Activism Among Poor
and Working Class Women ( black and white)
since 1900; ( in process) |

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Elizabeth Ann Danto
Email:
edanto@hunter.cuny.edu
PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH
INTERESTS:
History of
psychoanalysis and social welfare;
Postmodern theories and their application
to social work; Workplace social services.
RECENT BOOK:
Freud's Free
Clinics, Psychoanalysis & Social
Justice, 1918-1938, Columbia University
Press, Spring 2005
RECENT AWARDS:
TIAA-CREF Outstanding Faculty Lecturer
Award, 2004 DAAD/German Academic Exchange
Service, Faculty Research Grant, 2002
Listed in "Who’s Who in
America" since 1998. |
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James
Blackburn
Email:
james.blackburn@hunter.cuny.edu
PROFESSIONAL
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Cognitive
functioning among the elderly; Family
functioning across the lifespan.
COURSES
TAUGHT:
Foundations
of Social Work Practice; Human Behavior and
the Social Environment I and II - M.S.W.
Program.
RECENT
BOOK:
Blackburn,
James A. and Dulmus, Catherine N., Eds.
(2007). Handbook of Gerontology: Evidence-
Based Approaches to Theory, Practice, and
Policy. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. |

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Sarah Jane Dodd
Email:
sdodd@hunter.cuny.edu
Ph.D.,
School of Social Work, University of Southern
California, 2000
MSW, School of Social Work, University of
Southern California, 1995
MS.Ed., State University of New York,
Brockport, NY. 1993
BEd. (Honors),
Chelsea School of Human Movement,
England, 1988.
PROFESSIONAL
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Health care policy, health care ethics, ethics
education, program evaluation, LGBT issues.
COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Social Welfare
Policy.
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS:
Dodd,
S.J. & Jansson, B.S. (2004) Expanding the
boundaries of ethics education: Preparing
social workers for ethical advocacy in
hospital and other settings. Journal of Social
Work Education, 40, 3, 455-465.
Dodd, S.J. & Rivera, H. P. (2003).
Addition and Subtraction: Cost-Benefit
Analysis as a Tool For Teaching Diversity
Content in Social Policy. Social Policy
Journal, 2, 2/3, 107-121.
Dodd, S.J. & Meezan, W. (2003). Matching
AIDS Service Organizations’ Philosophy of
Service Provision with a Compatible Style of
Program Evaluation. An invited article for
Research Methods with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
and Transgender Populations, a special issue
of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social
Services, 15, 1/2, 163-180. Also reprinted as
a Chapter in Research with Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, and Transgender Populations. |

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Irwin Epstein
Email:
iepstein@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor Epstein occupies
the Helen Rehr Chair in Applied Social
Work Research, has taught at the
University of Michigan and Howard
University in the United States and at the
University of Warwick and the University
of Wales (Cardiff) in Britain.
He has conducted practice-based
research workshops at universities and
social agencies in the United States,
Australia, Europe and Israel. Co-author of
several books and numerous articles on
social worker professionalization and
research utilization, his current interest
is in exploring clinical data-mining as a
practice-research methodology. His most
recent books on the subject are: Clinical
Data-Mining in Practice-Based Research:
Social Work in Hospital Settings,co-edited
with Susan Blumenfield and Clinical
and Research Uses of an Adolescent Intake
Questionnaire: What Kids Need to Talk
About, co-edited with Ken Peake and
Daniel Medeiros. Another collection of
data-mining studies co-edited with Lynette
Joubert, is a collection of
multi-disciplinary data-mining studies
conducted by Australian allied health
practitioners. It will be published as a
special issue of the Journal
of Social Work Research and Evaluation.
COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Methods of
Quantitative Research; Dissertation Seminar I
& II
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Roberta
Graziano
Email:
rgrazian@hunter.cuny.edu
Certificate
in Analytic Psychotherapy, Washington Square
Institute
D.S.W., City University of New York
Certified Social Worker, New York State Board
Certified Diplomate
American Board of
Examiners in Clinical Social Work Member,
National Academies of Practice in Social Work
PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH
INTERESTS:
Trauma studies; Aging;
Mental Health; Clinical Practice; Private
practice of clinical social work, specializing
in adult survivors of trauma.
COURSE(S) TAUGHT: Comparative
Approaches to Theory and Practice in Social
Work
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
"Why Social
Work Needs a Trauma Approach". Presented
at the International Conference for the
Advancement of Private Practice, Lisbon,
Portugal, June 2002.
The
Challenge of Clinical Work with Survivors of
Trauma. In J. Brandell (Ed.), Theory and
Practice in Clinical Social Work. New York:
Free Press, 1997.
The Adult Survivor of
Childhood Sexual Abuse: Linking Inner and
Outer World. In J. Sanville & J. Edward
(Eds.), Fostering Healing and Growth.
Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1996.
Treating
Women Incest Survivors: A Bridge Between
"Cumulative Trauma" and
"Post-traumatic Stress". Social Work
in Health Care, 17 (1992). |
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Bernadette
Hadden
Email:
bhadden@hunter.cuny.edu
Bernadette
R. Hadden is an Assistant Professor at the
Hunter College School of Social Work.
She obtained a B.S.W. Honors Degree from The
University of the Western Cape, South
Africa, in 1986. She received her MSW
(1989) and Ph.D. (1998) from Columbia
University School of Social Work.
PROFESSIONAL
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr.
Hadden's research interests include
cognitive-behavioral skills-building
HIV/AIDS prevention interventions in the
U.S. among methadone maintenance program
participants, injection and non-injection
drug users, and the mentally ill, and in
South Africa among persons with sexually
transmitted infections. Her research
focuses on women of color and HIV/AIDS,
HIV/AIDS prevention interventions among
black men and women who self-identify as
heterosexual, and depression and anxiety
among the elderly. She has served as
Program Evaluator of the Hunter College
School of Social Work/Brookdale Center on
Aging Geriatric Field Practicum Development
Program, funded by The Hartford Foundation,
Inc. She also served as Program
Evaluator on a SAMHSA-funded
Evaluation/Research Contract with the New
York City Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene's "Reductions in Disparities in
Access to Mental Health Services in
Non-mental Health Settings Among
Racial/Ethnic Minorities" Program.
During 2000-2007, she served as the
Co-Director of a New York City Health and
Hospitals Corporation/Hunter MSW Scholarship
Program.
COURSES TEACHING
Dr.
Hadden teaches Social Work Research I and
II, Human Behavior and the Social
Environment I, II, and III, and Health and
Mental Health Policy in the Hunter College
School of Social Work MSW program. She advises Doctoral students on their
dissertations.
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS:
Pilowski, D. J., Hoover, D., Hadden,
B.R.,
Fuller, C., Ompad, D., Andrews, H. F., De
Leon, C., Hoepner, L., Xia, Q., &
Latkin, C. (in press). Impact of
social network characteristics on high
risk sexual behaviors among non-injection
drug users. Journal of Substance Use
and Misuse.
Hadden, B.R. (2002). Exploring a model of
HIV prevention using a
cognitive-behavioral skills-building
framework with black immigrants.
Journal of Immigrant & Refugee
Services, 1, (2) 77-100.
Ivry, J., & Hadden, B.R. (2002). The
Hunter experience: Innovations in the
field practicum. Journal of
Gerontological Social Work, 39, (1/2),
129-144.
Ivry, J. & Hadden, B.R.
(2002). The Hunter experience: Innovations
in the field practicum. In J. Mellor &
J. Ivry (Eds.), Advancing Gerontological
Social Work Education (pp.129-144). New
York: The Haworth Press.
Schilling,
R.F., El-Bassel, N., Hadden, B.R., & Gilbert, L. (1995). Skills
training groups to reduce HIV transmission
and drug use among methadone patients. Social
Work, 40, 91 101.
CURRENT RESEARCH
A
randomized controlled trial focusing on
HIV prevention among drug users and their
drug and sex network partners in Central and
East Harlem.
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Paul Kurzman
Email:
pkurzman@hunter.cuny.edu
PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH
INTERESTS:
Exploration of the
Impact of Licensing and Credentialing on
Social Workers and Social Agencies; Study of
the Meaning of Work and Non-Work to
Different Demographic Populations;
Occupational Social Work Policy and
Practice; Applied Ethics
COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Program
Design and Administration I
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Work and the Workplace: A Resource for
Innovative Policy and Practice with S.
Akabas (Columbia University Press, 2005).
Psychosocial and Policy Issues in the World
of Work (Family Service International Press,
1995)
Work and Well-Being: The Occupational Social
Work Advantage with S. Akabas, eds., (NASW
Press, 1993).
Work,
Workers and Work Organizations with S.
Akabas, eds., (Prentice-Hall, 1982).
Articles
"Managing
Liabilty and Risk in Nonprofit
Settings" in Edwars and Yankey, eds,
Effectively Managing Nonprofit Organizations
(NASW Press, 2006).
"Bakalinsky's Conundrum: Should Social
Workers Practice in the World of Work?"
Administration in Social Work, Vol. 23(4),
1999.
"Managing
Risk in Nonprofit Settings" in Edwards,
et.al., eds., Skills for Effective
Management of Nonprofit Organizations (NASW
Press, 1998).
"Workplace
Ethics: Issues for Human Service
Professionals" in Encyclopedia of
Applied Ethics, Vol IV, (Academic Press,
1998).
"Professional
Liability and Malpractice" in
Encyclopedia of Social Work, 19th ed., Vol.
III, (NASW Press, 1995).
"Improving
the Lives of Homecare Workers: A Partnership
of Social Work and Labor" with R.
Donovan and C. Rotman, Social Work, Vol.
38(5), 1993.
Current Research:
Ethical Issues in Professional Practice;
Employee
Assistance Program Effectiveness; Management
of Public and Nonprofit Organizations
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Beth Spenciner Rosenthal
Email: rosenthal@york.cuny.edu
Professor
of Social Work; Principal Investigator
- NIH-funded grant on antecedents and
consequences of adolescent stress;
Chairperson, Social Sciences Department, York College-CUNY. Designated by IASWR as
“one of 15 leading social work researchers in the
U.S.” For
further information on her research and opportunities for
graduate students, see: http://www.york.cuny.edu/~rosen/index.shtml
Research
Interests:
Adolescent health and mental health;
adolescent stressors; risk and resilience in
adolescence; cross-cultural research on
adolescents
Courses
Taught:
Advanced Statistical Analysis in Social Work
Research
Selected
Publications:
Rosenthal, B. S., & Wilson, W. C. (in
press). Mental health services: Utilization
and disparity among diverse college students.
Journal of
American
College
Health.
Wilson
, W. C., Rosenthal, B. S., &
Battle
, W. S. (in press). Effects of gender,
ethnicity and educational status on exposure
to community violence and psychological
distress in adolescence. Journal of
Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma.
Rosenthal,
B. S., & Wilson, W. C. (2006).
Adolescents’ psychological response to the
experience of community interpersonal
violence: A cross-national and a
cross-cultural comparison. Adolescence, 41,
417-433.
Wilson,
W. C., Rosenthal, B. S., & Austin, S.
(2005). Exposure to community violence and
upper respiratory illness in older adolescents. Journal of
Adolescent Health, 36, 313-319.
Rosenthal,
B. S., Wilson, W. C., & Baboolal, T.
(2004). Exposure to community violence and
psychological distress: Jamaican college
students in
N
or
th America
– Jamaican
or
N
or
th American?
Caribbean
Journal of Social W
or
k, 3, 24-37.
Wilson
, W. C., & Rosenthal, B. S. (2004).
Psychological impact of the
W
or
ld
Trade
Center
attack: Analysis bef
or
e and after. Psychological Rep
or ts, 94, 587-606.
Recent
Presentations:
Rosenthal, B. S., & Wilson, W. C. (2007,
August). Risk and protective fact
or
s in relation to PTSD symptoms. Paper
presented at International Congress on Stress,
Budapest
,
Hungary
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Baboolal,
T., & Rosenthal, B. S. (2007, June).
College students’ use of counseling:
Comparison between Jamaican-Americans and
Jamaican-West Indians. Caribbean and
International Social W
or
k Educat
or
s Conference, Trinidad,
West Indies
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Rosenthal,
B. S., & Wilson, W. C. (2006, February).
Cross-ethnic comparisons of psychological
distress and use of mental health counseling
among
U.S.
urban adolescents. Paper presented at annual
meeting of Society f
or
Cross-Cultural Research,
Savannah
,
GA.
Recent
Awards:
2004-2008 National Institutes of Health
(National
Institute
of
General Medical
Sciences): “Exposure to Chronic Community
Violence and Its Consequences”
Current
Research:
Cumulative effect of risk and protective fact
or
s in adolescence; adolescent trauma and PTSD
in young adulthood.
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Michael J. Smith
Email: msmith@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor Smith has specialized in social work research throughout
his career. He is the author of a best selling
text Program evaluation in the Human Services.
He teaches research in the Masters and Doctors Program
in the School of Social Work. Dr. Smith has published
in the areas of program evaluation, family care of
the developmentally disabled, mental health,
child welfare and youth programs, single- parent
family and family care of the elderly.
COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Methods of Data
Analysis
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Graduate School and University Center of The City University
of New York
Hunter College School of Social Work, Ph.D. Program in
Social Welfare
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Phone: 212.452.7048, Fax: 212.452.7440 Email: SocialWelfare@gc.cuny.edu
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